By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Schneider Shorts of 9.10.2026 – EU Commission invests €10 Million into Portuguese fraud, a French masterclass in replying on PubPeer, retractions for UCL professors retained and sacked, plus American quality science and amazing discoveries in Alzheimer’s!
“Bob Roskamp, a Sarasota entrepreneur and philanthropist, was getting his biggest kick Thursday from his $5-million gamble on a team of driven University of South Florida researchers who believe they can find the world’s first treatment for Alzheimer’s.”
Schneider Shorts 2.10.2026 – Greek papermiller and industry shill also worked for cocaine mafia, another papermill acquitted by Norwegian authorities, US biotech finds fraud, French entrepreneur on a losing streak, plus other retractions for trachea tranplanters, a trio of European professors, and a Commander of the British Empire.
“Hongji Yan presented four different versions of Figure 9 in the article and during the investigation as the “correct” figure. One version was published in the original article, one version was sent to the journal and published as a correction, and two more versions were shared with the Board”
Schneider Shorts 19.06.2026 – how to pass on a fraudster, a sex pest meets his friends in Prague, new episode of “Sleuth and the Proper Channels”, with retractions in Portugal, teenagers failing to do their duties, and finally, a British man’s dinosaur handbag!
Schneider Shorts 22.95.2026 – an obituary for great Italian cancer researcher, Thermo Fisher being Unscientific, Polish patriots fight russian agents, a Thai papermiller reinvents himself, with corrections and concerns, with Korean magnetism in genetics, and finally, beware of Colossal eggs hatching!
Schneider Shorts 8.05.2026 – from anti-aging obituary in USA to anti-aging rage in russia, a whistleblower achieves a retraction, a society journal gives up, a pharma company burns $4 billion, AI slop at highest level, and finally, does researching alcohol lead to double vision?
“It would be wrong to lock the proponents of ‘Longevity and Rejuvenation through DDW!’ in a room with their ‘Longevity and Rejuvenation through Heavy Water!’ counterparts, for a cage fight.” – Smut Clyde
Schneider Shorts 1.05.2026 – important men reveal their conflicts, IEEE overrun by Indian papermills, obscure cheating in France, Italian scholars lose papers, an Elsevier editor needs recognition, and finally, how pig sperm cures blindness!
Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – an anti-aging clinical trial with bonus eye-cancer, a papermiller turns to full-time mushrooming, an artist-scientist educates a youngster, German and Canadian cancer researchers unconcerned, retractions in Italy and Poland, Springer Nature changes history, and finally, a shrimp virus turns people blind!
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